AVAL vs. ITCL, NTB, BLX, WF, BSAC, BCH, HASI, SITC, CNO, and NSA
Should you be buying Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores include Banco Itaú Chile (ITCL), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. (BLX), Woori Financial Group (WF), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Banco de Chile (BCH), Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), SITE Centers (SITC), CNO Financial Group (CNO), and National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (NYSE:AVAL) and Banco Itaú Chile (NYSE:ITCL) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
In the previous week, Banco Itaú Chile had 1 more articles in the media than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Banco Itaú Chile and 1 mentions for Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores. Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Banco Itaú Chile's score of 0.00 indicating that Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Banco Itaú Chile pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores pays out 166.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Banco Itaú Chile pays out 25.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banco Itaú Chile is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
0.2% of Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.2% of Banco Itaú Chile shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Banco Itaú Chile has a net margin of 10.54% compared to Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' net margin of 1.00%. Banco Itaú Chile's return on equity of 10.65% beat Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' return on equity.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores received 177 more outperform votes than Banco Itaú Chile when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Banco Itaú Chile an outperform vote while only 51.59% of users gave Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores an outperform vote.
Banco Itaú Chile has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores. Banco Itaú Chile is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Banco Itaú Chile beats Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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